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Mountain View city council allocates LinkedIn 1.4M of 2.2M square feet in North Bayshore, threatening Google's campus expansion plans — In stinging defeat for Google, LinkedIn scores lion's share of real estate capacity in Mountain View's North Bayshore — LinkedIn Corp. came away …
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Kantar: phablets made up 21% of US smartphone sales in Q1, up from 6% a year ago, driven by iPhone 6 Plus sales — US phablet market soars — Phablets claimed 21% of all US smartphone sales in Q1 2015 - nearly quadrupling their 6% share from the first quarter of 2014 …
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| Eric Johnson / Re/code: |
Zynga to lay off 364 people, or 18% of its staff, within the next three quarters as part of the company's $100M cost reduction program — Zynga Narrows Focus, Will Cut 18 Percent of Staff — With Don Mattrick out and founder Mark Pincus reinstalled as CEO, what will Zynga's future look like?| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
Cody Wilson, inventor of the 3D printable gun, files countersuit against US State Department claiming the blueprints are protected free speech — 3-D Printed Gun Lawsuit Starts the War Between Arms Control and Free Speech — This week marks the two-year anniversary since Cody Wilson …
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Some Samsung Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge units have Sony IMX240 camera sensors, others have Samsung's own ISOCELL sensors — Here's the difference between Samsung and Sony camera sensors on the Galaxy S6 and S6 edge — Yesterday, there was a report stating that Samsung is shipping some units … | Paul Thurrott / Thurrott.com: |
Sources: Microsoft to add TV recording functionality to Xbox One, probably this year — Confirmed: Media Center is Dead — You may have seen recent rumors that Microsoft has killed off Windows Media Center, the ten-foot digital media interface that it first developed for a special version of Windows over 10 years.| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google to shut down its website optimization service PageSpeed on Aug. 3 — Google Shuts Down PageSpeed Service For Accelerating Websites — Google is shutting down PageSpeed Service, its hosted solution for optimizing websites for faster delivery, on August 3.
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| Douglas MacMillan / Wall Street Journal: |
Banjo raises $100M from SoftBank to build out software that detects world events in real time, using photos and videos uploaded to social media sites — Banjo Raises $100 Million to Detect World Events in Real Time — Banjo started four years ago as a simple app for viewing social media posts tagged … | Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Work Management Platform Wrike Raises $15M Series B Round — Work management and collaboration platform Wrike today announced that it has raised a $15 million Series B round led by Scale Venture Partners with participation from DCM Ventures and previous investor Bain Capital Ventures.
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| Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica: |
Google posts I/O 2015 schedule: Android M, voice access, ATAP wearables, multi-screen Chromecast games, more — Digging into the Google I/O 2015 schedule: Android M, voice access, and more — Google just released the I/O 2015 schedule, and there is a lot of info inside.| Craig Hockenberry / furbo.org: |
Apple hasn't fixed or even acknowledged widely-reported networking issues on OS X Yosemite and iOS 8 related to discoveryd — discoveryd Clusterf**k — I usually keep things fairly clean on this site. I have a simple metric: would I be embarrassed if my Mom read this post?
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| Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: |
PayIvy is an open web marketplace for stolen account credentials and license keys using PayPal to carry out transactions — PayIvy Sells Your Online Accounts Via PayPal — Normally, if one wishes to buy stolen account credentials for paid online services like Netflix, Hulu, XBox Live or Spotify …
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| Lara O'Reilly / Business Insider: |
Facebook adds native ad tools to Audience Network, including templates, horizontal scrolling, and ranking of ads — Facebook wants to turn its mobile ad network into an even bigger business by running ‘native’ ads on other apps — Facebook Audience Network — the social network's mobile ad platform …
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Facebook Developers, Marketing Land, Facebook, The Next Web and AdExchanger
| Greg Bensinger / Wall Street Journal: |
Ex-Apple retail boss Ron Johnson launches Enjoy e-commerce site, with personal delivery and in-home setup service at no cost — Former Apple Retail Boss Ron Johnson Unwraps New Web Startup ‘Enjoy’ — Ron Johnson, the former Apple retail chief who was ousted as J.C. Penney's boss two years ago …
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| Ryan Smith / AnandTech: |
AMD's 2016-2017 x86 Roadmap: Zen Is In, Skybridge Is Out — AMD's CTO Mark Papermaster just left the stage at AMD's 2015 Financial Analyst Day, and one of the first things he covered was AMD's CPU technology roadmap for the next couple of years. — The big question on everyone's mind … | Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: BMW, Audi, Mercedes-Benz, and Baidu preparing formal bid for HERE mapping service at “considerably more than €2B” — German Car Makers Preparing Formal Bid for Nokia's Here Map Service With China's Baidu — BMW, Audi, and Mercedes-Benz eager to acquire technology needed to run self-driving cars| David Katzmaier / CNET: |
Comcast to offer 4K Xi4 set-top box this year and Xi5 set-top box with HDR in 2016 — Comcast to offer 4K set-top box this year — The nation's largest cable provider has confirmed plans to deliver Ultra HD content to its subscribers via a new set-top box called the Xi4 later this year.| Roland Moore-Colyer / V3.co.uk: |
SAP reveals HANA Cloud Platform for IoT and bolsters Intel and Siemens partnerships — ORLANDO: SAP is moving deeper into the Internet of Things (IoT) arena by revealing HANA Cloud Platform for the IoT, and broadening its partnerships with Intel and Siemens.
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ZDNet, RCR Wireless News, InformationWeek, Talkin' Cloud, Fortune and IT World Canada
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A profile of Frank Wang Tao, founder of the world's biggest drone company DJI, who is worth $4.5B — Bow To Your Billionaire Drone Overlord: Frank Wang's Quest To Put DJI Robots Into The Sky — Frank Wang Tao has never been arrested. He pays his taxes on time. And he rarely drinks.Sponsor Posts
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